The New Yorker Magazine - The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs

This book has truly been a collective endeavorweve depended upon the varied skills and judgment of those who point, flush, retrieve, terrier, herd, guard, or rescue. But special thanks go to Roger Angell, Michael Boland, Noah Eaker, Hannah Elnan, Adam Gopnik, Malcolm Gladwell, Whitney Johnson, Susan Kamil, Rachel Lee, Robert Mankoff, Pam McCarthy, Caitlin McKenna, Jon Michaud, Wyatt Mitchell, Franoise Mouly, Lynn Oberlander, Beth Pearson, Paolo Pepe, David Remnick, Suzanne Shaheen, Eric Simonoff, and Susan Turner. Very special thanks go to Giles Harvey, whoin addition to performing all of the foregoing functions with an unflagging nose for humor, literary excellence, and visual zestraced over the snowy peaks of our archives with a small wooden keg of brandy around his neck. And to Henry Finder, because someone must call Mush!

J OAN A COCELLA has written for The New Yorker since 1992 and became the magazines dance critic in 1998. Her books include Mark Morris, Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism, and Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints.

R OGER A NGELL has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1944. He became a fiction editor in 1956 and is now a senior editor and staff writer at the magazine. His books include The Summer Game, Season Ticket, and Let Me Finish.

D ONALD B ARTHELME (19311989) published 128 stories in The New Yorker over twenty-six years. His collection Sixty Stories was a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist in 1982.

V IRGINIA W OODS B ELLAMY (18901976) contributed poems to The New Yorker in the 1930s and 1940s. Her books include And the Evening and the Morning

D AVID B EZMOZGIS is the author of the collection Natasha and a novel, The Free World.

B URKHARD B ILGER has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2001. He is the author of Noodling for Flatheads, which was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award.

T. C ORAGHESSAN B OYLE has published nine short-story collections and thirteen novels, including Talk Talk, The Women, and When the Killings Done.

M AEVE B RENNAN (19171993) joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1949 and for many years wrote the column The Long-Winded Lady for the Talk of the Town. She published two volumes of short stories, most of which appeared originally in The New Yorker.

J OHN C HEEVER (19121982) sold his first story to The New Yorker in 1935 and was a regular contributor of fiction to the magazine until his death. His books include The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park, and Falconer.

R ICHARD C OHEN is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. His books include Tough Jews, Sweet and Low, and The Fish That Ate the Whale.

L AUREN C OLLINS has worked at The New Yorker since 2003 and is currently a staff writer based in England. Her subjects have included Michelle Obama, the graffiti artist Banksy, and Donatella Versace.

R OALD D AHL (19161990) was a novelist, short-story writer, and poet and one of the worlds bestselling childrens authors. His books include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and The Twits.

D AVID D AICHES (19122005) was a Scottish literary critic, scholar, and poet. His books include The Novel and the Modern World, Some Late Victorian Attitudes, and A Weekly Scotsman and Other Poems.

R ODDY D OYLE is an Irish novelist, dramatist, and screenwriter. His novel The Commitments was made into a successful film of the same name. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

S TEPHEN D UNN won a 2001 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Different Hours. His other books of poems include Everything Else in the World, Here and Now, and What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 19952009.

I AN F RAZIER has written humor and reported pieces for The New Yorker since 1974, when he published his first piece in The Talk of the Town. His books include Dating Your Mom, Great Plains, On the Rez, and Travels in Siberia.

A LEXANDRA F ULLER is the author of four books of nonfiction, including Dont Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight, which won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness.

M ARJORIE G ARBER is a professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University and the author of numerous books, including Vested Interests, Dog Love, Shakespeare After All, and Patronizing the Arts.

A NGELICA G IBBS (19081955) was a staff writer at The New Yorker for many years. Her short story The Test, which originally appeared in the magazine, has been widely anthologized.

M ALCOLM G LADWELL joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1996. He is the author of four bestselling books: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw.

A DAM G OPNIK has written for The New Yorker since 1986. He is the recipient of three National Magazine Awards and a George Polk Award for magazine reporting. His books include Paris to the Moon, Through the Childrens Gate, and The Table Comes First.

J EROME G ROOPMAN , a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1997, is the Recanati Professor of Medicine at Harvard. His books include How Doctors Think and Your Medical Mind, coauthored with Dr. Pamela Hartzband.

D ONALD H ALL was the United States poet laureate in 20062007. His books include Without, White Apples and the Taste of Stone, and The Back Chamber.

K ATE J ULIAN is a former managing editor of The New Yorker and is currently a senior editor at The Atlantic.

E. J. K AHN , Jr. (19161994), began to write for The New Yorker in 1937 and was one of The New Yorkers most prolific contributors. His subjects ranged from Coca-Cola and the worlds foodstuffs to Frank Sinatra and Eleanor Roosevelt.

E RIC K ONIGSBERG is the author of the book Blood Relation. He has contributed Talk of the Town pieces to The New Yorker since 1994 and began writing feature stories for the magazine in 2001.

J ONATHAN L ETHEM is the author of almost twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Ecstasy of Influence, The Fortress of Solitude, Chronic City, and Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.

A. J. L IEBLING (19041963) joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1935. During World War II he was a correspondent in Europe and Africa. After the war he wrote the magazines Wayward Press column for many years. His other subjects included boxing, food, and horse racing.

E LIZABETH M ACKLIN is the author of two poetry collections, A Woman Kneeling in the Big City and Youve Just Been Told, and is the translator of the Basque writer Kirmen Uribes Meanwhile Take My Hand.

B EN M C G RATH has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2003. He writes frequently for The Talk of the Town and also writes about sports for the magazine.

R EBECCA M EAD joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1997. She has written articles on a wide range of topics, including legalized prostitution, the spring-break business, and God-based diet programs. She is the author of One Perfect Day